This detailed analysis establishes John Selden as one of the most interesting and important early modern political theorists.
"This book is based upon the belief that the movements of prices on the exchanges are dependent to a very large degree on the mental attitude of the investing and trading public ... [and] is intended chiefly as a practical help to that ...
And how exactly did London transform itself into a global city? London’s success, Robert K. Batchelor argues, lies not just with the well-documented rise of Atlantic settlements, markets, and economies.
Join Chester Cricket and his friends in this classic children's book by George Selden, with illustrations by Garth Williams. The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book.
His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals for us the surprising links between ...
... Selden's formidable and wide- ranging scholarship . A Scholar and Certainly Not a Poet In one of his famously witty footnotes , Edward Gibbon contrasts the beauty and conciseness of Milton's catalogue of pagan deities in book 1 of ...
... Selden ridicules Heraclitus's reduction of all being to mere flux as an example of a natural philosophy that offers nothing but vain poesy . From time to time in the Mare Clausum , even as they disagree on the spe- cifics of maritime ...
... Selden . Hearne wondered as early as 1709 whether it was an authentic work of Selden's ; see Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne , ed . C. E. Doble et al . ( Oxford , 1885-1915 ) , 2 : 178. The work was printed in Opera Omnia , 6 ...
... Selden in the Levantine style , including twenty - nine quotations from the Hebrew Bible , the letter asks for his help in publishing Karaite literature . Of all the titles bestowed upon Selden - including lofty master , genius , wonder ...